Day 123: American Life in the Roaring 20s

1. Day 123: American Life in the Roaring 20s Baltimore Polytechnic Institute March 13, 2013 A/A.P. U.S. History Mr. Green

2. Objective Students will be able to analyze to what extent technological innovations improved the lives of the American people.

3. American Life in the Roaring 20s Objectives: Students will: Explain and analyze America’s turn toward social conservatism and normalcy following World War I. Describe the cultural conflicts of the 1920s over such issues as immigration, cultural pluralism, and prohibition; and describe the rise of organized crime during the decade. Describe the rise of Protestant Fundamentalism and its apparent defeat in the landmark Scopes Trial. AP Focus Concerned about the success of the Bolshevik Revolution, the United States, Britain, and other nations send troops to participate in the Russian Civil War in the hope of toppling Lenin’s communist government. Domestically, a systematic effort to suppress Bolsheviks, or reds, is launched. A political cartoon in The American Pageant (13th ed., p. 721/14th ed., p. 771) makes it abundantly clear that leftists have no place in American life. Intolerance grows in the nation after World War I. A new and more virulent nativist strain emerges in the reborn Ku Klux Klan, which has expanded its influence across the nation. To shrink immigration from certain areas of the world, a quota system is put in place. That and the Immigration Act of 1924 dramatically reduce eastern and southern European immigration.

4. Chapter Focus Chapter Themes A disillusioned America turned away from idealism and reform after World War I and toward isolationism in foreign affairs, domestic social conservatism, and the pleasures of prosperity. New technologies, mass-marketing techniques, and new forms of entertainment fostered rapid cultural change along with a focus on consumer goods. But the accompanying changes in moral values and uncertainty about the future produced cultural anxiety, as well as sharp intellectual critiques of American life.

5. Announcements 5QQ ID Check-Numbers 1-30 on Friday Unit 8-1920s/1930 Test on Friday March 22 IDs due on March 22

6. Warm-up Identify the reasons the KKK expanded in membership during the 1920’s. Identify reasons for the Red Scare of 1919-1920. Identify outcomes of increased immigration during the 1910s.

7. Prohibition Increases in crime Speakeasies Organized crime Lindbergh baby

8. Fundamentalism v. Darwin Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 John T. Scopes taught evolution, violating Tennessee state law Clarence Darrow-represented Scopes William Jennings Bryan-represented the Bible Challenged the literal interpretation of the Bible

9. Culture between the wars Could American manufacturers find the mass markets for the goods they had developed? Advertising make Americans unhappy with their meager possessions. The Man Nobody Knows-Bruce Barton Sports Boxing Cars-Assembly line/Fordism/Scientific Management Buying on Credit vulnerable to disruptions of credit

10. Culture Between the Wars Gasoline age Airplanes Radio Movies nickelodeons propaganda

11. The Dynamic Decade 1920-Most Americans living in urban areas Contraceptives Margaret Sanger Fundamentalists to the Modernists “Flappers” Dr. Sigmund Freud Marcus Garvey-UNIA Harlem Renaissance “New Negro”

12. Wall Street’s Big Bull Market Florida real estate 100’s of banks failed annually Buying on margin National debt increased Andrew Mellon rich invested in tax-exempt securities instead of factories lowered taxes-shift to middle-income groups decreased debt indirectly encourage bull market

13. Homework Read Chapter 32